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The Temple Is Sacred Because It Is Not for Sale
Ezra Pound
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Installation: a wooden box on wheels with horns and a mask in an exhibition hall
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Hand holding a pair of scales in a detail of Gothic painting with gold ground
Faith · Art · London · Madrid · Museums
The Archangel Michael Triumphs over the Devil
1468. The first known painting by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Bermejo, who was almost forgotten until the early twentieth century and to this day has not received the worldwide fame his talent deserves. Photo from the Bermejo exhibition at the National Gallery in London, 2019
Books · Moscow · Observations
In Mayakovsky Theatre's new production of Ostrovsky's "The Forest", Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, a widow in her early fifties, and her friend the housekeeper Ulita are at last played not by 70- or 80-year-old grannies but by young, vivid women, Anna Ardov
In Mayakovsky Theatre's new production of Ostrovsky's "The Forest", Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, a widow in her early fifties, and her friend the housekeeper Ulita are at last played not by 70- or 80-year-old grannies but by young, vivid women, Anna Ardova and
Cinema · Observations
By the way, the film is available not only on Wink, but on YouTube too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T04POnbynJY
Archive · Art · Heritage
German photographer Herbert List created Memento 1945, a series of more than 200 images of post-war Munich, exploring the theme of death in the city
German photographer Herbert List created Memento 1945, a series of more than 200 images of post-war Munich, exploring the theme of death in the city. Among the most striking in their contrasts were the pictures of the ruins of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, with its dead, shattered
Books · Society · People
Garibaldi met Cuneo in Taganrog and swore an oath to fight for Italy
Taganrog is the only Russian city that Garibaldi names in his memoirs. And it is no accident that Garibaldi is commemorated in Taganrog by two monuments. Giuseppe Garibaldi arrived in Taganrog aboard a small merchant vessel with the most prosaic of purposes: to buy flour of a variety popular in
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In spring 1833 in a Taganrog tavern Garibaldi heard about Mazzini and Young Italy
In Taganrog, in one of the streets nearest the port, there was an old tavern. In the spring of 1833 many Italians gathered there around a young dark-haired man with a shining eye and an inspired tongue. It was a spacious room, its walls blackened by tobacco smoke. The
Archive · Art · Books · Ethnography
A Married Cossack Woman in a Headdress Covering Her Hair, and a Young Girl with a Ribbon Plaited into Her Braid, from Cherkassk
An engraved sketch from the atlas "Travels through the Southern Governorships of the Russian Empire in the Years 1793 and 1794" by the German-Russian encyclopaedist Peter Simon Pallas
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